Originally Posted by
travelmad478
Mr. travelmad478 and I throw away almost nothing (luckily, both of us were this kind of person before we met/married!). Meat bones and eggshells are it, really. Very rarely, the produce we buy spoils before we can eat it--cheap Roma tomatoes, I'm looking at you!--but even then the spoiled stuff goes in the compost, which goes into the vegetable garden, so I'm counting that as utilized
Egg shells you can toss into the compost pile (or if you're inclined to break out the pestle and mortar or an old coffee grinder, you can blitz them until they're near powder and sprinkle in the garden or feed to chickens if you raise them). Meat bones (if you have the time and patience) you can make into bone meal and also add to your garden (bone meal helps with roots and fruiting... the P in NPK). The disadvantage is that you need to boil the bones for 4-6 hours and then when they dry out, break them down with something. Boiling them down will dissolve any soft tissue as well as any meat.... but smells pretty bad.
There's nothing wrong with not wasting where possible. It's just difficult in today's world where most things are designed with built-in obsolescence.... including the food.